In January 2009, computer scientist Hal Finney received the world’s first bitcoin transaction from the network‘s pseudonymous founder, Satoshi Nakamoto.
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On January 3rd, 2009, a few months after the publication of the original whitepaper, the first lines of code were committed to the bitcoin blockchain by Satoshi Nakamoto. But Nakamoto vanished. No one has discovered who Satoshi was or is, though many have tried.
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